Sunday, September 19, 2010

Hello, there! I am really proud to show Orlando's homework. He's a student in our university and he's taking classes in our level 3. In this slide presentation..Orlando Ortega introduces his new friends!!!

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Hello, there! Well, this week we have a really nice short video that will help you to learn how to choose a safe password and practice your English at the same time. Enjoy it!!! This video was shared by Diego Velasquez, a computer engineering student at URBE.

Friday, September 10, 2010

How To Improve Your Vocabulary! well, I found this great site called About.com: English as 2nd Language. They suggest several techniques to improve our vocabulary .. mmm.. I thought we could use some of those great ideas in class, so here I will write about some of the ones we'll be working with in class or for homework.

1. Vocabulary Charts place vocabulary in connected categories to help "long term" memorization. This is a printable vocabulary chart to help you create in-class vocabulary charts.

Example of a vocabulary chart

2. Learn Collocations: Collocations refer to words that often or always go together. A good example of a collocation is to do your homework. These lists of important verb + noun collocations will help your learn some of the most important.

Now, match these words and make collocations:Verbs:Nouns:
Take Have Break a break a leg a headache

Write your answers in the comment area.... smiles...

3. Making a wordle "word cloud": According to Wordle..... It is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Well, this is to announce our Facebook group!!!! We have a Facebook Group...!!! This is not new ...but ..this is what we'll be using to leave messages, ask questions or have fun practicing your English.

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Something to think about!

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Mahatma Gandhi

"I write entirely to find out what I am thinking, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear"Joan Didion